(apologies for the short diary - I thought this was important enough to get its own diary, instead of disappearing into an open thread)
In this morning's Cincinnati Enquirer is an op-ed by Mr. Lucian Bernard, an attorney who practices in Covington, KY (just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati).
It's worth reading and passing along.
(more below the fold)
The op-ed ends with this:
For the last three years, your administration has been telling us that bin Laden and the people who were responsible for attacking us have been holed up in the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan. So why did you deploy 140,000 troops a thousand miles away in Iraq?
"Staying the course" has created another Vietnam. The only difference is one was in the jungle, the other in the desert. Whether we are there due to faulty intelligence or deliberate deception isn't even important anymore. Both explanations represent a gross failure of leadership. And by the way, Mr. President, tell your defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, that nobody threw flowers at Mike when he got to Iraq. Just bullets, mortars and improvised explosive devices.
"Nobody threw flowers at Mike when he got to Iraq."
Spread this far and wide, folks.
WF